Metacognitive Reflection (12/6/20)
I have decided to reflect on my writing because that is primarily what this week has consisted of. In this week alone, I have incorporated my writing techniques in a research paper, research presentation, an analysis paper, and free-writing about a certain topic. I am convinced that having so many assignments that require writing and my input have strengthened my writing. Before this semester started, I struggled with writing a sentence word for word from an outside source, instead of paraphrasing in my own words and then still citing it. After the substantial amounts of research papers I had to write this week, I now notice how I easily paraphrased sources and have gained confidence in this particular field. Since we are still amid a pandemic, many of my classes assigned final projects instead of final exams which may require more work but has allowed my writing to excel in all of my classes. In this class, we were assigned to free-write for our reflective memo assignment due later next week. I absolutely love free-writing as I believe it allows for more creativity to be integrated into my writing. Free-writing is almost like a rough draft and allows me to be able to get an understanding of what I am going to write about. For next week, I now know that I have started a little bit on a major assignment and will be able to pick up right where I stopped. As I have already submitted a metacognitive reflection on my blog, the same feelings towards my writing. There is one thing that I believe I have strengthened from the previous metacognitive reflection and that is not having a strong outline on what to do with a project. In my Public Health course, our final consisted of a final research presentation and a final paper about the same topic. At the beginning of this assignment I felt clueless and had no idea where to start, but knowing that there is not a heavily detailed outline on the assignment -- I knew that I could include all of the necessary points that I felt would be relevant to inform the readers of. I feel like I have overcame a lot of my struggles in writing, and am now very confient in my writing.